At 11:29 AM -0400 8/23/99, Chuck Robey wrote:
>I think mandatory locking should exist, but only be available to root.
>If a program needs this, it must run with root privs, so that ordinary
>users cannot wedge the machine, but (as usual) root can shoot himself
>in the foot (traditional Unix methodology).
I don't think we want to force people into running their program as
root just to get mandatory locking. Perhaps there would be a program
with root-privs which would have to be run to register files which
will have mandatory locking, but the program which manipulates those
files shouldn't have to run as root.
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